The Hiding Place Girl: Kindle Book of the Day 5/23

Today's book of the day is an emotional tale of two young people who have to learn to deal with their troubled home lives. In The Hiding Place Girl, Renae and Patrick have more than the normal adolescent obstacles; can they get through childhood without their secrets ripping them apart? A mesmerizing and painfully truthful novel you won't forget. Get it ON SALE today!

Name: The Hiding Place Girl
Rating: 3.8 stars over 21 reviews
Price: 3.99 0.99
Description:  Set in the American South, The Hiding Place Girl is a painfully truthful telling of a girl's secret adolescence and young adulthood.  (Please note that this novel contains sexually explicit scenes.)

When she was a child, Renae and a boy named Patrick were friends. They shared adventures. They shared secret hiding places. But they never told each other about the secret worlds hidden inside their houses. Their sharing stopped one fall afternoon when Patrick walked home from school and found something terrible waiting for him there. After that day, what his family had hidden away was out in the open for all to see.

Years later, Renae's father dies suddenly. Staring at his casket in the funeral home, she tumbles back in memories to untangle the connections between herself as a young girl and the woman she has become. Her memories begin with Patrick, and in them she finds that the fearful choices she made when they were childhood friends are the choices she's been making ever since. Because the hidden world inside the house she grew up in has been following her
around.

Reviews: "I devoured this book from beginning to end and enjoyed it immensely. It is a rare novel that can leave me thinking for so long afterward about my own upbringing, my own life experiences, and how they have shaped me into the person I am today. This book fearlessly explores those secret sides of every human being, and exposes us all for who we really are. Loved it."

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Top Kindle Book Deals 5/22

Here are some great deals on three Kindle books you're going to love! From thrills to romance, there's something here for everyone. Take a look at the books below and get them before the prices go back up!

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How (Not) to Kiss a Toad - Romance
4.3 stars over 91 reviews
Price: 2.99 0.99
Description: Cindy Eller is a witch with a gift for creating decadent desserts highlighting the exotic and spicy flavors of her native Southwest. However, life isn't always sweet for this magical baker. All her life she's been cursed-- every man she's ever kissed has turned into a toad. Love isn't likely to come her way, she knows.

If that weren't a big enough problem, her 'curse' has come to the attention of the Council of Magic and she may never be able to use her powers.

Enter the perfect man-- handsome, sweet, and loves food just as much as Cindy does. It would seem to be a match made in Heaven, or is it?

Cindy isn't the only one keeping secrets.

With toads, cupcakes, romance, magic and ice cream, life never has time to get dull!

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A Widow Redefined - Literary
5.0 stars over 15 reviews
Price: 2.99 0.99
Description: On a cold Valentine’s Day in Chicago, Amy White, a young widow who lost her husband to cancer, visits the cemetery and makes an unsettling discovery: a bouquet of fresh daffodils lying in front of her husband’s grave.

Curiosity grows into obsession as Amy searches for the stranger who left the flowers, while keeping her activities a secret from her live-in mother and seven-year-old son. The search leads to an unusual friendship that transforms her world and redefines her life.

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Kill the Dead - Thriller/Horror

4.4 stars over 103 reviews
Price: 12.99 0.99
Description: Sandman Slim is back from Hell. After wreaking unholy havoc in author Richard Kadrey’s resoundingly acclaimed Sandman Slim, the demon-slaying anti-hero and half-angel fugitive from the underworld returns in a brutally funny, eye-poppingly inventive, and totally addicting follow-up, Kill the Dead. If you’re a fan of Buffy and Jim Butcher, Christopher Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Warren Ellis, or you dig the dark urban fantasy vibe of Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, and Simon Green, you’ll cheer Lucifer’s onetime personal assassin as he signs on as his ex-boss’ Hollywood bodyguard…and takes on the zombie apocalypse almost single-handedly.

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Black Hull: Free Kindle Book 5/22

Black Hull is the exciting Sci-Fi thriller from rising star Joseph A. Turkot. In serial form, this series tells the tale of Mick Compton, whose desperate search to find a way out of his criminal record is nothing short of entrancing. Pick up the first episode now for FREE!

Name: Black Hull: Episode 1 (A Lost In Spacetime Thriller)
Rating: 4.5 stars over 11 reviews
Price: 0.99 FREE
Description: Black Hull is a lost-in-space thriller, with strong elements of suspense and mystery. There are also tones of subtle eroticism, minus graphic imagery. It is intended for adult audiences.

This thriller’s edge of your seat narrative keeps the reader questioning: What’s going to happen to Mick next? It’s given up front that Mick Compton is a man with a past: he’s facing thirty years in prison for violence—and he’s lost his once highly coveted position with NASA’s FRINGE outfit. Now, facing a long stretch in prison, with two sons and an ex-wife he wants back, he’s faced with a horrible dilemma—do the time and miss out on his children’s youth, or run one black hull smuggling operation in a distant system, get a meaty reward, and pay off a connection with a standing offer to wipe his crime history from the UCA database.

All is going well until the ride home: Mick finds himself waking up prematurely, long before arriving in Earth orbit. He’s floating in dead space. Not only has he woken from cryo early, but he’s not aboard his black hull vessel any longer: he’s in an escape pod with only enough power for several more hours of life-support. It is Mick waking up that begins the first episode in the Black Hull serial novel.

The fast-paced writing, the mystery of what happened to his crew, and Mick’s panic-stricken quest to stay alive in a strange future and get back home to his family creates an incessant need for readers to devour each new episode in this serialization. The action of the plot is interwoven with riveting flashbacks that depict Mick’s mistakes leading up to the loss of his marriage and the murder of his wife’s lover. Mick’s is a story of a man grappling with regret, clinging to a far-fetched hope that somehow, things can be made right again, despite man’s known laws of physics.

Reader Reviews: "This is a terrific story, the main character is in a dire situation, alone, in the blackness of deep space. The story ends well, with questions unanswered, sufficient for the reader to ask themselves 'what next'? Lots of detail on which the story can grow. You'll be glad you start reading!"

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Kindle Book Sale: Chasing Charlie 5/22

Chasing Charlie is a sweet romance about a Texas librarian who's trying to step out of her comfort zone and a cowboy wannabe who needs a fake, temporary fiancée. But once they've gotten to know each other, will a fake romance be enough? You don't want to miss this heartwarming love story. Check it out now!

Name: Chasing Charlie
Rating: 4.8 stars over 10 reviews
Price: 2.99 0.99
Description: Raised in a family of rodeo champions on a South Texas cattle ranch, Charlie wants only one thing: to avoid thrill-seeking cowboys.

Davis Murphy, cowboy wannabe and one of Dallas's most eligible bachelors, needs a pretty and witty faux fiancée so his widowed mother will marry her longtime gentleman friend.

Charlie, his local librarian, seems the prefect choice.

Charlie's first reaction is to run, but she's promised herself to step out of her plain-jane routine.

When Charlie accepts, Davis's plan is set. But now Charlie's sweet ways are challenging his bachelor heart.

THE TEXAS TWO-STEP, in series order
Chasing Charlie
Country Courtship
Courting Trouble

Reviews: "This story was pure delight! Full of places in which I could not stop my chuckling from becoming audible! Highly recommended reading!"

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Free Kindle Book: Hurricane Season 5/22

Here's a new mystery unlike any you've ever read before. In Hurricane Season, when a stranger comes to town in the 1950s, Lily Trulock finds herself right in the middle of a bootleg war. Explosions and murder throw her world into turmoil…and there's even worse on the way! A fantastic, thrilling mystery you can get for FREE today! Check it out now!

Name: Hurricane Season
Rating: 3.8 stars over 28 reviews
Price: 3.99 FREE
Description: Miss Marple meets Eudora Welty (with a trace of Erskine Caldwell) -Kirkus

P.D. JAMES said: “(Michaela Thompson) knows how to create that sense of place, which is so important to any novel but particularly to crime fiction; her characters are believable men and women in a real world, her mystery is credible, and in Lily Trulock she has created a middle-aged heroine who is both original and sympathetic.”

JOHN D. MACDONALD said: “I enjoyed the book. It has real people in a real place, factors which seem to be ever more rare these days—even though it is the only way to create a real suspension of disbelief.”

The New York Times said: “With the kind of realism that stems from William Faulkner, the author skillfully portrays her inbred, suspicious, nasty people ... Hurricane Season ends up an orthodox murder mystery, but it is more than that. In a way, [Michaela Thompson] has attempted a microcosm of America, carefully dissecting out a single cell under a very strong lens."

The story of a storm, an illicit love affair, and moonshine… (actually, two illicit love affairs)

The 1950s fairly leap off the page in this classic cozy mystery set in northern Florida in the Eisenhower era, complete with Johnny Ray on the jukebox and a Womanless Wedding—this one interrupted by an explosion at a moonshine still. Lily Trulock, owner of Trulock’s Grocery & Marine Supply, leads a pretty quiet life until a stranger comes to town. The new guy’s not what he appears, but then, some of St. Elmo’s residents aren’t either.

Before she can say, “down the hatch,” Lily’s at the center of a vicious murder and a no-holds-barred bootlegging war—and a nasty storm’s on the way. This is a vibrant, atmospheric, powerful novel—as filled with energy, mystery, and motion as a hurricane.

Hurricane Season is as much a richly-detailed, spot-on historical as a mystery, widely praised by masters of the genre and reviewers alike for its pitch-perfect period feel and fine, spare writing.

"A remarkable, compelling first novel ... a storm of a story." -The Washington Post

"This is a remarkable book which deserves readers from far beyond the ranks of mystery fans." -The San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner

Reader Reviews: "Hurricane Season reminded me just how much skill it takes to create a truly different (yet completely realistic) world and weave a mystery through it. No car chases, computer hackers, or explosions here -- just a thoroughly satisfying book."

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